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There is no "I" in team for sure, but there is a M and an E for "ME", and I don't mean Windows ME.

I get around 72ms to driventech, would love some Q3 action, although I am not a god at the game.

While XP still has some minor issues left to address its like a polished version of Windows 2000, I think XP is what Microsoft wanted to deliver in Windows 2000 in the first place, that's why it only took a year or so to get it out. 2000 was out around February 2000 and XP was out October 2001.

I definitely gotta give those 25.5 det's a try for my GF2MX. From personal experiences detonator 7.52 was super fast on my GF2MX, but I had good times with 14.1, 12.41, and 21.81, and 23.11.

Although I wouldn't go for one personally, I want to know if anyone around here has a P4 with PC133 memory? How do you like it?

Quote: Another point is that you know how when you have 1 of those really annoying probs for which the cause/culprit is hard to pin down, but then you think you've figured out what the prob is, only to realise it's actually something else? Just recently I blamed Windows XP and my mouse for laggy input in OpenGL games, turns out the problem was my VIA chipset which required the PCI Latency Patch to correct it, an unofficial patch nontheless. I find $299 to be cheap but I know you are referring to US dollars, Hammer91. Man a GeForce 4 Ti4600 here in Canada is $600+ dollars, yikes! I went to EB the other day and saw a Visiontek Xtasy Ti4600 and it was something like $629. A Radeon 8500 goes for about $450-500 range while the All In Wonder version is a nice $599.99

Back when the Rage Pro and Rage 128 line were around, ATI's support was really poor, driver releases were like 6 months or even longer apart, they didn't consider the gaming/enthusiast market one to support, ATI was huge in the OEM market and it still is and in Canada, ATI boards are everywhere. It was with the Radeon they changed and focused on gaming/enthusiast markets due to Nvidia biting into their market share. But I've had nothing but trouble with them so I am reluctant to try them again.......for now anyways. I remember this one guy who posted something like this, ATI drivers suck because they create a whole new card all the time, for example the Rage 128 is completely different from the Rage Pro, and the Radeon is different from Rage 128, thus new drivers need to be created everytime. Meanwhile Nvidia just bolts new features on to the existing design TNT2 was a souped up TNT, GeForce4 = overclocked GeForce 3 with a couple of things, GeForce4 MX is like a GeForce2 MX on steroids and thus creating new drivers from scratch is not necessary. Interesting thought process there.

No offense to anyone who likes ATI, but they aren't getting my business for a long time if ever. had an ATI SVGA card, never got high color modes to work with this even though it claimed it in the manual, had 1 meg of ram on this. got an ATI 3D Xpression, Rage 1, 2 MB card, poor DirectDraw performance, forget Direct3D with this too since only 2 megs yet the manual claimed Direct3D would work. then got an ATI Rage Pro with 8 MB RAM, you would think I learned my lesson by now but no, I bought and finally the Direct3D was good, but now OpenGL was crap, back then Quake 2 was all the rage [no pun intended] and this card just couldn't cut it, and the card had issues with anything that was transparent. so I swore never to buy ATI again, but alas I got an ATI Xpert 2000 Pro, this really sucks, the Xpert Pro model for some reason was clocked slower than the normal Rage 128 Pro models. Poor frame rates all around. Also this card used slow sdram and not sgram [might be the other way around, whichever was slower was on the Xpert line] and this card had a reduced bitpath 64-bit as opposed to 128-bit. Yet all of this information was nowhere to be found. The clincher was the lack of AGP 4X, the manual says AGP4x compatible, which in ATI terms means according to ATI "the card will work in an AGP 4x slot" which means you get a card that is still only 2X, just operating in a 4x slot.

there is this program called FRAPS, run it and while running a game it will calculate FPS in the corner so you can see it while playing. http://www.fraps.com/

The one you think is ideal for price/performance or the one that is hits the sweet spot for all things.

Anytime I reach a website that I can't reach for whatever reason, busy, offline or whatever IE forwards me to http://lop.com instead of giving me the server not found message. Anybody else get this problem, sounds strange but its driving me nuts. For example if I typed in IE this http://www.nowebsitehere.com a place where there is no website, I immediately get taken to http://lop.com its annoying cuz if sometimes a web site doesn't transfer fast enough it will also go to http://lop.com. I scanned for viruses and couldn't find any. Got any clues?

Success, I have managed to clean it out nicely and no more problems with it. The problem was also linked to an IE plugin that Adaware removed, a DLL file, and also and a lopsearch.exe file in the Application Data folder. I have my younger siblings also using this PC and its possible they may have unwillingly clicked something or said "yes" to one of those ominious prompts to install something. I decided to post part of the log file of my ad aware cleaning job here. Removing selected components: ============================== Deleting:Doubleclick,3,file,2,,D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Cookies\administrator@doubleclick[1].txt, Deleting:Other,3,file,2,,D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Cookies\administrator@valueclick[1].txt, Deleting:Lop,3,file,2,,D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\lopsearch.exe,203 Deleting:Lop,3,file,2,,D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\plg_ie0.dll,203 Deleting:Doubleclick,3,file,2,,D:\Documents and Settings\Vanisha\Cookies\vanisha@doubleclick[1].txt, Deleting:Other,3,file,2,,D:\Documents and Settings\Vanisha\Cookies\vanisha@valueclick[1].txt, Deleting:Doubleclick,3,file,2,,D:\Documents and Settings\Dharmesh\Cookies\dharmesh@doubleclick[1].txt, Deleting:Other,3,file,2,,D:\Documents and Settings\Dharmesh\Cookies\dharmesh@valueclick[1].txt, Deleting:Lop,1,HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT,2,clsid\{9b35a850-66ab-4c6d-8a66-136ecadcd904},, Deleting:Lop,1,HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT,2,clsid\{d44b5436-b3e4-4595-b0e9-106690e70a58},, Deleting:Alexa,1,HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,2,software\microsoft\internet explorer\extensions\{c95fe080-8f5d-11d2-a20b-00aa003c157a},, Deleting:Lop,1,HKEY_CURRENT_USER,2,software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\backup,, Deleting:Lop,1,HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,2,software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\browser helper objects\{d44b5436-b3e4-4595-b0e9-106690e70a58},, Deleting:Lop,1,HKEY_CURRENT_USER,2,software\trinityayb,, Deleting:Lop,1,HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT,2,swish.browserhelper,, Deleting:Lop,1,HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT,2,swish.browserhelper.1,, Deleting:Lop,1,HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT,2,swish.toolband,, Deleting:Lop,1,HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT,2,swish.toolband.1,, Initializing:Lop,2,HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,2,software\microsoft\internet explorer\toolbar,{9b35a850-66ab-4c6d-8a66-136ecadcd904}, Task completed on9:35:02 AM Done.

Okay you were both right. CUViper, some of those registry entrie were different and had lop.com mentioned in them. PsychoSword, I download AdAware and it came up with lots of references to lop.com and the term "lop" as spyware. It was around 13 references, I am cleaning it up as I type this.

Those 10.80's drivers were like the fastest drivers I saw for OpenGL and D3D performance was pretty good too, yet my system was really unstable with them.

Those are some great ideas, I'll try them out and post up my progress.

Some personal experiences I could install and run it fine but when I tried to apply the official patch the game would crap out giving errors, so I guess be careful when patching. Haven't tried it under XP yet.

Just an added note, I found that the 23.11, 21.81, 14.1, 12.41, and 7.52 Detonators worked best on my GeForce 2 MX.

While the drivers aren't different the Nvidia Refresh Rate Fix Utility will not see manufacturer drivers as true Nvidia drivers. I tried this fix with Hercule's detonators and Elsa detonators and it doesn't work. Go here for the fix, just search for it in a search engine: http://www.planetquake.com/ztn/nvreffix/ As for 75 in Direct3D you might have the DirectX diagnostic refresh rate override enabled.

Quote: QUESTION : jedi knight II defaults to 60 hz ..... any solution ?? Grab a hold of the Nvidia Refresh Rate Fix Utility, it'll fix up the default refresh rate problem. It only works with Nvidia Reference drivers so install those instead of the one that came with the card, but if you need card specific features that the reference drivers do not enable you are stuck with the manufacturer drivers, however in JK2, bring down the console SHIFT+DEL and type r_DisplayRefresh "75" and then vid_restart. Or create a shortuct to JK2sp.exe and add this to it +set r_DisplayRefresh "75"

Try the 300-watt first, if you don't have problems then its all good. If you have problems get a higher watt one.

Usually the auto function on the properties box works...strange, I really don't know whats going on there. If you still got FAT32 filesystem, format a disk and select create startup disk and use that or use a Win9x or WinME boot disk.

I would get either the GeForce 3 Ti200, GeForce4 Ti4200, both are better buys than the GeForce 4 MX line of cards. You might be OK with a GeForce 2 Ti card as well but its feature set is not as good as the GF3 or GF4. I've got a GF2MX right now and its ok but I really can't play games past 800x600x32 and at 800 I have to disable some options like Trilinear, Anisotropic filtering and high texture detail to get consistent frame rates, this is on a 750 Mhz processor, on a 1.6 Ghz you could pust it a bit more but the video card is too pokey and has slow RAM so you won't like it when the game action gets heavy. I am only a casual gamer as well but I am really waiting for the Ti4200 cards.

Since we had that AMD motherboard poll, and chipset discussion came up, let's poll it.

Quote: From an enthusiast and home user's standpoint, I'll say what I've said before: I don't believe the chipset matters as much. That's a really good point there Brian, as a home/enthusiast user, I gave VIA a try this time, and will probably give SiS, AMD, or even ALi a chance later on too.

I'd have to say Intel because I never had problems with them, although VIA is decent when it works. AMD have problems here and there, and the only SiS chipset I had experience was from some OEM system with integrated video into system RAM, bad situation there.